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Why would a God punish you for a belief of the brain? Who care's if we don't believe after honestly analyzing the evidence and drawing conclusions that differ from your own? Only a tyrant demands submission of even your thoughts.

No, no. I'm saying that myself and many, many others have examined the question of God's existence in earnest and found that there is no good reason to believe she/he/it exists. You say that "your conclusions are the truth" but you have no evidence; it sounds like you are a slave to an idea, unable to examine it.

Yes to a particular extent. Something is true based on its value. Empirical truths are true for this reason. Mathematical and logical truths are too. There is nothing that says that one must follow logic, math, or observation in order to get to truth, but it seems that logic, math and observation have a lot of value.

Do you know the first time God's word was contradicted?

Contradicted in what sense? Like god contradicted himself? Does it matter?

Do you wonder why death exists if life happened for no reason whatsoever?

Death occurs because living forever is not required to reproduce. We live as long as we generally need to keep our species going. If we died earlier, we obviously wouldnt reproduce and our species would die out.

If nothing was alive (meaning everything was dead) and life spontaneously formed, why does life exist?

I dunno. Do you? Saying, "therefore god" is not an answer, its just filling the gap with an answer that suits you.

Contradicted in what sense? Like god contradicted himself? Does it matter?

It matters very much. God stated you will die if you eat of a particular fruit. The serpent said "you will surely not die." Death exists because of this one lie. A lie only exists with the truth, for a lie is a contradiction of the truth.